Parental Leave-Possibility or Trap? Does Family Leave Length Effect Swedish Women's Labour Market Opportunities?
Parental Leave-Possibility or Trap? Does Family Leave Length Effect Swedish Women's Labour Market Opportunities?
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DOI：
10.1093/esr/jcq018
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发表时间：
2011-08-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Duvander, Ann-Zofie
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作者：
Evertsson, Marie;Duvander, Ann-Zofie
瑞典以其旨在促进母亲和父亲兼顾工作和家庭的政策而闻名。育儿假保险是这些政策的一个重要组成部分，旨在减少妇女的工作与家庭冲突。然而，人们对长时间家事假可能对妇女职业生涯产生的影响知之甚少，迄今为止关于这一专题的研究主要涉及到1990年代初之前的时期。此外，选择性问题很少得到处理。在本研究中，我们专注于1974年至2000年期间母亲的休假行为，并估计了家事假长度与重返工作岗位后向上职业移动的过渡率之间的关系。使用了1991年和2000年具有全国代表性的瑞典生活水平调查的数据。结果表明，休假16个月或更长时间的妇女一旦重返工作岗位，就不太可能经历职业升迁。在一个多层次，多进程模型，包括未观察到的异质性，主要结果仍然存在，我们的结论是，即使在控制到不同的育儿假长度的选择性，我们发现一个负面影响的时间在随后的职业生涯的举动。
Sweden is known for its policies aimed at facilitating the combination of work and family for both mothers and fathers. The parental leave insurance is one important part of these policies, considered to reduce the work-family conflict for women. However, there is scarce knowledge about the effects a long family leave break may have on women's occupational careers and the studies on the topic so far mainly refer to the period up to the early 1990s. In addition, issues of selectivity are seldom dealt with. In the present study, we focus on mothers' leave-taking behaviour in the period from 1974 to 2000 and estimate the relationship between family leave length and the transition rate to an upward occupational move upon return to work. Data from the nationally representative Swedish Level of Living Survey of 1991 and 2000 are used. The results indicate that women with leaves of 16 months or more were less likely to experience an upward occupational move once back on the job again. In a multilevel, multiprocess model including terms for unobserved heterogeneity, the main results remain, and we conclude that even after controlling for selectivity into different parental leave length, we find a negative effect of time out on subsequent career moves.